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Kotlin Demo

Kotlin is a language developed by JetBrains (who develop the Intellij Idea IDE). It aims to be an alternative to Java on the JVM and is developed so it will be easily supported by an IDE (obviously it will be supported by Idea very well)

ittayd 11/01/2012 - 07:41
kotlin, kotlin, Resource
Scala implicits (ouch)

Twitted by Tim Bray: "This is the kind of thing that keeps me from warming up to Scala"

http://eed3si9n.com/revisiting-implicits-without-import-tax

adi 03/01/2012 - 13:30
implicits, Scala
Akka faster than Erlang

According to this benchmark, Akka (a Scala actor library) is faster than Erlang by a factor of 2

 

UPDATE: more analysis: https://plus.google.com/u/0/112820434312193778084/posts/HdKFx4VQtJj

ittayd 26/12/2011 - 15:47
Article, Scala, scala akka erlang
Productivity Elsewhere

Enthusiasm is overrated. Developers who get religious with their programming language is something I can’t understand... Religion, you know, blinds people...

 

adi 04/12/2011 - 10:25
Incubator, node.js, Scala
Creating a Bugzilla Dashboard – hands-on CDE Tutorial – Fuse Day #3 Session Summary

In a previous post we have installed the Pentaho server and used CDF code to create a dashboard.

In this post we will develop another dashboard for Bugzilla using CDE - the Dashboard Editor..

udid 30/03/2011 - 16:13
CDE, CDF, Dashboard, OSBI, OSBI, Pentaho
Javascript IDE’s? yes!

Lately, I am surprised of how javascript is perceived with people who are not so familiar with the new era of javascript.
Javascript has stepped up in its significance as a development language quite high in the last 3-4 years and it still does.
With javascript becoming so popular for developing almost any field: server side, database, client, mobile devices, cable boxes, games (and I can continue wit this list – but i won’t), the need for a proper IDE arises.

orenf 27/10/2011 - 11:23
Javascript, javascript ide
Functional Programming (in #scala) for the rest of us

Whoever tries to learn Scala immediately encounters talk about Functional Programming.

 

The first step is having functions as first-class citizens. This opens up new ways of programming, and the Scala collection library if far superior to Java's because of it. There are many examples of how boilerplate loops of creating and populating new collections can be replaced by a succint one liner of using `map`.

 

In this post I'll try to explain the more advanced concepts of Functors, Applicatives and Monads. I'm doing it starting from everyday OO and building the API and the implementation as we go along.

 

(Note: This paper was not easy to write and may still be confusing despite my best efforts. I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions in the comments, or through twitter: @ittayd)

 

ittayd 30/08/2011 - 17:15
fp, fp scala
A nice introductory video to Scala

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ittayd 28/09/2011 - 08:26
Presentation, Scala, Scala
Javascript as an assembly language

It is interesting to note that Javascript is becoming more and more an assembly language for the web. Javascript is used more and more as either the direct "VM" for new languages (e.g., coffeescript) , or an additional backend. See here a detailed list

 

The newes addition is ClojureScript, a dialect of clojure that compiles to Javascript. Here is the rationale behind it. Rich Hickey, creator of clojure is behind it.

 

I find two interesting issues here:

ittayd 21/07/2011 - 09:33
javascript, Javascript
Tikal’s Monthly Javascript Digest - 05/2011

This month’s issue, it the first issue in a series of “javascript digests”.
These digests will explore the very new and popular frameworks, discovers, articles, libraries, the important tips & tricks and the new API’s releases in the world of javascript for each month.
The issues will also include news about HTML5 & CSS3 and related examples and articles.

The idea of the digest is to give a small insight and focal point for few interesting subjects that were gathered during the month. In that way, you’ll have a starting digest point for the next month.

orenf 30/05/2011 - 11:21
incubator, Incubator, javascript, UI